A SCOTS teenager threatened with a knife by her Muslim father has appealed for calm over the case.

Shyvonne Ahmmad, 18, fears her dad’s crime could spark a backlash by racists against the vast majority of decent Muslims in her community.

She is concerned that tensions are already running high after the terrorist murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in London.

And she said yesterday: “It’s important that everyone stays calm.

“I wouldn’t want this to turn into a thing about Islam because people can be very small-minded. My father has a very warped sense of what Islam is.”

Shyvonne’s father Regime, 49, escaped jail this week for pulling a knife on her and threatening to kill her after she shared a bed with a male friend at her mother’s house.

Perth sheriff Valerie Johnston said her instinct was to send him to prison but sentencing rules meant she could not give him long enough to make it worthwhile. She gave him a two-year community payback order instead.

Afghan-born Ahmmad is now living less than a mile from Shyvonne, who says she wants nothing more to do with him.

Ahmmad said he pulled a knife on his daughter because of evil spirits (Image: Lindsay/Hart/PPA)

He terrorised his daughter on May 8 last year as he berated her for wearing shorts and letting a male friend sleep in her bed.

Shyvonne told his trial: “He said I was supposed to be a Muslim and, if I wasn’t, he would kill me and then himself.”

A witness said Shyvonne was shaking for an hour after Ahmmad’s threat.

When the Record tracked Ahmmad down after the case, he denied producing a knife and said he still loved his daughter.